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The Gate of Worlds By Robert Silverberg Dan Beauchamp is a young Englishman whose heart longs for fortune and adventure But industrial Mexico is a long way from primitive Britain, and Dan has a lot to learn.

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine s Castle, as well as At Winter s End, also available in a Bison Books edition He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award Silverberg is one of twenty nine writers to have received that distinction.

The Gate of Worlds By Robert Silverberg

Commentaires:

Zandra

This is THE STORY OF WHAT IF S Set in a world where the English did not colonize the world or bring the industrial revolution.An adventure travel memoir of an 18 year old Englishman He leaves behind a primitive England ruled by fare off Ottoman Empire, to find his fortune in one of the other super powers Aztec Empire Along the way he befriends a sorcerer, allies to a prince set on raising his own kingdom, falls in love carelessly Constantly in danger from his loyalty to others, the story goes fr [...]

This is an interesting what if world, which really didn t work out for me because the narrator main character was just so prone to making stupid decisions Here is some good advice, I will proceed to ignore it Oh, look, things went wrong Well, oops It really felt on that level The main thing the story had going for it was the flipping round of colonialism, and the fact that it didn t do that too exactly Silverberg seems to have thought through the implications of the changes he made to world hist [...]

A what if novel What if the Black Death had wiped out 3 4 of Europe and the Turks were victorious This is the story of a young man from England in the late 20th century who travels to the New World for adventure and fortune Very entertaining.

Interesting world, and it would be interesting to see it explored in detail.The story is only there to showcase the world, and the only thing driving the story forward is the sheer idiocy of the main character.

This was first published in 1967, and it shows It gets some historical stuff totally wrong, namely that the Aztecs only fell to the Spanish because they thought the Spanish were Gods, which didn t happen at all It is also ignorant of the disease and depopulation of the Americas Hence this alternative history has the divergence start when the Spanish are delayed a few decades before reaching the new world, allowing a less gullible Aztec emporer to rise and not fall for their tricks Hence the Amer [...]